Warborn Blades
Take it up to the light
House code LW-0341
Leopard Resin Choctaw
In hand · Ships from the US · Carriage $16
Is this lawful where you stand? Read the law for this piece →
Dappled gold and shadow dance across the grip of this nimble pocket companion, echoing the stealth of wild beasts in the brush. It remains a gentle keeper of the daily round, carving wood on the porch or cutting twine in the barn. A loyal partner, it never falters when called upon.
About this piece
Leopard Resin Choctaw is a folding knife carried by Warborn Blades, a licensed United States dealer of folding pocket knives. It measures 6.7in overall by the house's own reckoning, the forge having stated no measure, and it ships from the house's own walls rather than a drop-shipper's warehouse.
The blade is 440 Stainless blade. Stainless forgives neglect — it resists corrosion in a damp pack, a boat or a kitchen sink — at the cost of being slower to bring back to a keen edge.
Fittings and furniture: Resin (Leopard Print). The fittings are where a piece is honest or is not — a guard, a pommel and a grip that are fitted tight will not shift under work.
Ownership and carry are two different questions. Most provinces permit possession of what they forbid on the street, and blade-length ceilings apply to carry rather than to what may be shipped to your door.
Knife laws by state — free, all fifty and the District.
“It waits in the pocket like a held breath.”— the Lady, quietly
- Overall
- 6.7 inches (our reckoning)
- Form
- folder
- Steel
- 440 Stainless blade
- Fittings
- Resin (Leopard Print)
$62.99
The Muster — swear $237.01 more and the house bears the carriage. Otherwise it is $16.00 flat, however much steel rides. Walk the halls
Proof of age is required before any steel leaves these walls — always, for every soul, without exception. Read why this gate stands.
Muster a war-ready kit around this pieceTrade old steel toward itNothing is charged. The oath is held until you set your seal to it.
The house will hold it in mind for two days. Come back inside that window and a tenth of the reckoning is forgiven.
The Trial of the Blade
Swing it before you own it. This exact piece — its reach, its weight, its steel — is put in a fitting hand and set against a living foe for three exchanges. What you feel is what you would carry.
The Tale of the Blade
What it is built for
This piece is built for the pocket — carried every day, opened a thousand times, kept a lifetime.
The lineage of its steel — 440 Stainless blade
Stainless steel. Chromium in the alloy resists rust rather than defeating it. It is forgiving of neglect and slightly stubborn on the stone — sharpen it patiently and it repays you.
Read the chapter on this steel →This blade belongs in the hand of
The everyday carrier
One who wants steel at hand without a belt sheath: rope, tape, cord, packaging, and the small work of a whole life.
Keeping it alive
Dry it, oil it, store it out of the sheath for the long keep, and sharpen it before it is blunt rather than after. The house gives the whole method away for nothing.
The Upkeep Writ — free →The road it walked to this wall
1. Forged at the maker's fire
The piece is made by the forge that makes it — we do not pretend to have hammered it.
2. Received and looked over by the house
It comes into our walls and is checked before it is ever offered.
3. Sealed with the Seal of Provenance
The house records what it knows about the piece — and refuses to claim what it cannot prove.
4. Sent out from the house's own walls
It ships from us, with the record travelling beside it.
These four stations are the house’s standing doctrine for every piece it carries, not a tracking record of this one blade. Where the house cannot prove a claim, it strikes the claim rather than dressing it up.
The voice of the steel
Every piece in this house has one true note, and it is not a recording. Leopard Resin Choctaw is 6.7″ of 440 stainless blade, and a bar of that length and that temper rings at about 644 hertz — keen and steady, clean. Strike it and hear the piece itself.
Written before it was ever sold
The Blood Ledger
01The Pattern
The pocket knife is the most inherited object in the world after a wedding ring. It waits in the pocket like a held breath, is used ten thousand times for nothing much, and then once for something that matters.
02The Making
Working stainless — 440 Stainless blade. It forgives neglect, damp air, blood left too long on the blade. It gives up a little keenness in exchange, which is a trade most who carry daily are glad to make.
03The Carry
At 6.7 inches this disappears. It rides in a pocket and is forgotten until the moment it is not. Small steel is the most-used steel in the world.
04The Reckoning
This is not decoration that happens to be sharp. It is a sharp thing that happens to be beautiful. Keep the order of those words.
Warborn Blades · the chronicle of Leopard Resin Choctaw
What it leaves open
Swung honestly, it keeps you close. No piece covers every yard of ground — that is why no one ever carried only one. Beside it the house would hang something that reaches past the guard before he closes.
The Armorer’s Bench
What it leaves wantingNo one ever carried one blade. The armorer sets down what this piece cannot answer for, and names the steel that can.
The press
Black Abs Bowie with SheathSame fittings, other work. It answers for a working length for the close work, when the line has already broken.
$48.99the pair — $111.98
The line
Green/Black Rubberized Machete with SheathSame fittings, other work. It answers for reach held out in front of thee, to meet a man before he arrives.
$79.99the pair — $142.98
Kindred Steel
All of The Pocket Knives →Steel keeps company with its own. These hang near it on the wall.
The house has written on this
- Carbon or Stainless: Which Steel Should You Actually BuyThe oldest quarrel in the trade, settled plainly.
- How to Clean a Sword: Step by Step in 10 MinutesTen minutes of care is the difference between an heirloom and a rusted disappointment.
- Keeping an Edge: Sharpening, Stropping and StorageHow to keep steel keen without ruining it — the whole discipline in one reading.
Learn this steel — free, from the house
Forge Wisdom is the house's whole craft, given away. No coin, no seat, no gate.
- The Oakeshott typologyHow swords are actually classified, type by type.
- Tangs and fittingsThe hidden steel that decides whether a hilt holds.
- What sharpness actually isAngle, apex and burr — why an edge cuts and why it stops.
- Stones, files and machinesWhat to sharpen this edge on, and what will ruin it.
Leopard Resin Choctaw
$62.99